I’m still digesting the ’90s. It takes some time to get perspective.
BRIAN K. VAUGHANI think some people are just very passionate that things remain the way they were when they were kids.
More Brian K. Vaughan Quotes
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To try and imagine that I’m another person is always going to be hard – whether I’m writing about a truck driver or someone who is gay, who’s trans, who is of a different ethnicity or creed. But it would be boring if I always had to write about myself and my limited viewpoint.
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Everyone had a mother, even if she had to leave us on a stranger’s doorstep. No matter how we’re eventually raised, all of our stories begin the exact same way. They all end the same, too.
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I think some people are just very passionate that things remain the way they were when they were kids.
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After ten years of toiling away in Hollywood, I realized that there’s no better place for new ideas than comics.
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The appealing thing about comics: There literally is no budget in comics. You’re only limited by your imagination.
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I genuinely am sort of an emotionally stunted man-child, so if I just write to the top of my intelligence, it sounds like a teenager.
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My mom once told me that a good relationship isn’t where the other person makes you feel better, but where they make *you* better.
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I’m 40 now, and I have children of my own. Before I forget my own childhood completely, I want to take some time to take a look at the ’80s and think back.
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After 9/11, I knew I wanted to write about power and identity and the way Americans on all sides of the political spectrum often mythologize our leaders, which are themes that the superhero genre has always handled really well.
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I write the book for one person – for Fiona [Staples, the artist]. I spend a lot of time just thinking how she’ll react to things and manipulating her into drawing perverse, horrific things. It’s a really weird job but I enjoy it.
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I know I’m a grumpy old man, but I’m always more delighted by readers talking about the actual comics than people talking about how eager they are to have their favorite comics be “elevated” into another medium.
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Pacifists are like vegans, I’m more of a vegetarian. I enjoy fish and occasional maulings.
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If a good editor will let me tell my story with the right artist, I’m happy.
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I’m not afraid of the world. I’m afraid of a world without you.
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Immigration confuses and terrifies me, so why not try to write a comic and make some sense of it?
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